State of Connecticut Retirement & Trust Funds, Hartford, hired BARRA RogersCasey as general consultant for the $21 billion system, pending successful negotiations of a three-year contract, said spokesman Bernard Kavaler.
Separately, Pioneer Ventures Associates, a private equity firm hired in the fourth quarter of 1998 by former state Treasurer Paul J. Silvester, has agreed to reduce the system’s commitment to $50 million from $75 million and to return nearly $1 million in fees to the pension fund.
